TaleWorlds Entertainment is an independent video game development company, founded in 2005. Having grown from the initial two founders, TaleWorlds now employs over seventy developers including a self-publishing team.

Mount&Blade has received numerous accolades since its release, including multiple placements in PC Gamer Magazine’s “Top 100 PC Games of All Time” list. The team is currently developing the much anticipated sequel, Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord.

Photograph taken Summer 2017

Awards and Reviews

PC Gamer Magazine rated Mount&Blade as one among the top 100 games of all times. Since itsrelease, Mount&Blade raked in hundreds of awards and reviews from all around the world.

Best Indie Game

Editors' favorites 2008 #4

Independent RPG of the Year

"Mount & Blade's combat gameplay is a triumph, and by its own is reason enough to play the game. "

"...and just when I thought that I was getting too old for such emotions, along comes Mount&Blade and turns my world upside down once more.

"Absolutely the best horse-mounted combat I've seen in a game. Building an army, pledging yourself to a liege lord, and laying siege to castles is fun, fun, fun! "

"The noble steed has been neglected in gaming for far too long, but now we've finally got a game that will allow us to kill a man as easily from the saddle as from any other position."

Best Simulation

"Mount & Blade is really something different in the game industry, and given how things are these days, that's saying a lot.

"Mount & Blade, a game with a lot of new innovations for computer games."

PC Zone UK

“You'll be having Duke Nukem flashbacks and shouting "I've got balls of steel" in no time. [July 2010, p.84]”

Absolute Games

“Warband is not just a great expansion pack that makes this medieval "sandbox" even more enticing. By adding multiplayer, the developers cemented the game's cult status.”

Video Game News

"These titles often (but not always) turn out to be priceless in terms of gameplay, enjoyability and value and go on to become cult hits..."

Honest Gamers

"What the game does have is an immersive real-time combat system that is unlike any other..."

Avid Gamer

"Mount & Blade proves that PC gaming is very much alive and where you should be..."

Game Focus

"If you followed Mount & Blade from its early beta release to the eventual full release you would have seen..."

PC Advisor

"Medieval combat in gaming really hasn't been done that well so far..."

Bit-tech

"Mount & Blade is a free-roaming, open-ended game where you decide where to go and what to do next..."

Gamers Daily News

"Mount & Blade takes a refreshing look at what is perhaps the most competitive genre across..."

Game Pro

"Medieval combat in gaming really hasn't been done that well so far..."

Game Squad

"Mount & Blade is refreshingly original in that while it takes place in the mythical land of Calradia..."

Boom Town

"Mount & Blade has a realistic Medieval theme but the land which the game is set in is fictitious..."

Armchair General

"Thundering hooves, a flashing lance, and nearly a ton of armored man and beast..."